MUDGE’s Musings
From a site we’ve looked at before (here, and here), and which we proudly display in our blogroll, one that always pussyfoots and minces words , The Smirking Chimp, comes an intriguing analysis of the Democratic party’s continuing challenge.
Democrats: Impeach, or Face Humiliation in November
by R.W. Behan | March 7, 2008 – 4:45pm
If the Democrats persist in stonewalling the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney, they invite a humiliating defeat in the presidential election this fall.
For more than a year, the Democrats have gamed the system of Constitutional democracy, refusing to impeach—“It would be too divisive”—in order to assure a Democratic victory in 2008. But the year produced some surprises, and now their scheme stands an excellent chance of backfiring.